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The result was Keep. Nomination withdrawn to avoid wasting further community time. It appears my interpretation of WP:PROF#C1 was off of the community consensus. Thanks to all for the input (non-admin closure) Ajpolino (talk) 22:06, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Belinda Ferrari[edit]

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Early-career researcher; appears to have just been granted tenure in the past year. Is on a few more-cited papers but is not the senior author on any. Doesn't yet meet WP:NPROF. It's just WP:TOOSOON for now. Ajpolino (talk) 19:18, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. 17 years out from her Ph.D. is not "early-career". Being early in one's career is not in itself a reason for deletion. The "not senior author on any" claim is mistaken; she is first author on her second-most-cited paper, "Microcolony cultivation on a soil substrate membrane system selects for previously uncultured soil bacteria". She has attracted significant media attention including a story in Newsweek for her research on antarctic air-eating bacteria [1] [2] [3]; although this work is too new to have attracted many academic citations yet, I think it says something that it was published in Nature [4]; she is last author, and the media stories call her "senior author". And in general, her citation counts on Google Scholar look above threshold for WP:PROF#C1 to me. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:08, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep per David Eppstein. XOR'easter (talk) 21:38, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I rescued this from speedy in 2016 after creation as part of an editathon because I believed her citation record was sufficient to meet WP:PROF, and on a second look I hold to that opinion. The fascinating subsequent Nature paper on which she is corresponding author, per David Eppstein, tends to confirm that. Espresso Addict (talk) 22:38, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Citation record is adequate to satisfy WP:Prof#C1 for a highly cited field. WP:Prof does not need to be dumbed-down in order to include academics of this level. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:43, 8 May 2018 (UTC).[reply]
Keep Here is yet another popular source impressed and interested by her work. [5] This took 1 minute to find using Google. I think our readers deserve a chance to learn more about this researcher. HouseOfChange (talk) 23:55, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I agree with David Eppstein and Xxanthippe that Ferrari's contributions satisfy WP:PROF#C1. Cheers! Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 18:18, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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